In essence, this film satirizes a kind of superficial "noble character": this kind of "noble character" tends to hold a kind of "self-righteous" to creatures in a situation that is not good for them. "Sympathy" and "saving heart", and this kind of compassion/saving heart is what Buñuel wants to criticize. Because, most of the time, how to really save and help these people is a very big and very complicated topic, and if you rush into it and help them with self-righteousness, it will most likely be unhelpful. In the end, this approach may even be worse than simply "looking up" at them.
The film is a story built around this central idea. Many clips actually embody this meaning, and these clips (especially the dog buying clips and the clips of "The Last Supper") have a very high level of audio-visual design and scheduling:
——Viridiana wanted to comfort Haimai, so she dressed up as her dead wife, but Haimai’s desire was aroused. He kissed her, he wanted to sleep with her, and he wanted to marry her, Viridiana was so scared that she hurriedly Rejected, Haimai hanged himself. If Verityanna refused to dress up as her dead wife from the beginning, Hymer might not hang herself.
——And the clip of buying a dog. Jose saw the dog tied to the farmer's carriage and felt that the dog was very pitiful, so he bought it. At this time, another farmer's carriage passed by on the other side, also with a dog on a leash, but Jose had already walked away with the dog he had bought. Jose's sympathy, on the contrary, caused a kind of "unfairness."
——There is also a contrast montage of Viridiana taking the working beggars to rest and pray to pick up other formal workers to continue working. Here, Velityanna's kindness also caused a kind of "unfairness."
-Parody the entire fragment of "The Last Supper". These 13 homeless men were received by Viridiana to help them in the big house. As a result, when she and other relatives of the owner of the house were not there, the 13 homeless men held a grand dinner (the director was still playing mischievously in the middle of the event). I made a composition for "The Last Supper") and turned the house upside down (excuse me, so many roles are not messy at all when they are scheduled, it's really awesome). After being discovered later, the 13 homeless people slipped away quietly, afraid of worry. Interestingly, they are equivalent to escaping from the "shelter" in Viridiana's eyes. Very interesting thematic response.
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